First Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly

Partial view of the second meeting of the 55-nation Committee 1 (Political and Security) of the First Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly as Dr. Fadhil Jamali, second from left, chairman of the delegation from Iraq, speaks on the question of granting a hearing before the Committee to the Jewish Agency and to the Arab Higher Committee. Seated at table are, clockwise from left: Dr. Charles Malik, Lebanon; Dr. Jamali; Nasrollah Entezam, Iran; M. Asaf Ali, India; Dr. Tiburcio Carias, Jr., Honduras; Mauclair Zephirin, Haiti; Jorge Gardia Granados, Guatemala; Vassili Dendramis, Greece; Alexandre Parodi, France, and Ras Imru Haile Selassie, Ethiopia. Seated behind Mr. Zephirin is Emilio Zea Gonzalez, alternate delegate from Guatemala. The First Special Session was convened at the request of the United Kingdom to consider the Palestine question.